Its funny you should say that ,my first electric guitar was a stratocaster with a maple neck ,should have kept it as it was a real one, sold it to a friend Peter Picard,good friend whom I dated his sister,well we all make mistakes .another really weird thing ,I find if you explore U tube everyone is playing a les paul ,bands that I know for a fact didn't/ kind of makes me wonder ,I guess les paul while being good and all must have one hell of a promotion dept?